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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25

Washington Telegram: The follow.
ing 10 the full text OF the act to re-
strict the ownership of real estate in
the territories to American citizens
"snd 80 forth, approved March 3, 1887:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the
United States of America In Congress
assembled, That II shall be unlawful
for any person or persons not citizens
Of the United States, who have not
lawfully declared their intention to
become such citizens, or for ny cor
poratiOn not created by or under the
laws Of the United States or of some
state or territory of the United States,
" hereafter acquire, hold, or own real
estate 80 hereafter acquired, or any in
terest therein, In any Of the territories
of the United States or In the District
Of Columbia. except such as may be
acquired by Inheritance or in good
faith In the ordinary course of justice
In the coll ection cf debts heretofore
created: Provided. That the prohibi-
ti0n Of this section shall not apply to
cases In which the right TO hold or
dispose of lands In the United States
Is secured by existing treaties to the
citizens and subjects Of foreign coun.
tries. which rights, 30 far rs they may
exist by force of any such treaty shall
continue to exist SO long a. such treat.
lee are in force. and no lorger.
Section 2 That no corporation or q =
s0ciatioD more than twenty per cent
um o. the stock Of which Is or may be
owned by any person or persons, cor
poration OF corporations, association or
associations. not citizens. OF the United
states, shall hereafter acquire or hold
or own anv real estate hereafter ac-
guired in any Of the territories of the
United States or Of the District Of
Columbia.
Section. 3. That incorporation other
than those organized for the construc.
tion or operation Of railways. canals or
turnpiker shall acquire, bold or own
more than five thousand acres OF land
In any Of the territories Of the United
States, aud no railroad. canal or turn.
pike corporation shall hereafter ac-
quire. hold or own lands 10 any terri
tory, other than may be Necessary for
the proper operation OF It's railroad,
canal or turnpike, except such lands
as may have been granted 10 IL by act
Of Congress. But the prohibition OF
this section shall not affect the title to
any lands now lawfully held by any
such corporation.
Section. 4. That all property acquir-
ed, held, OF owned 10 violation of the
provisions OF this act shall be forfeited
10 the United States. and IL snail be
the duty Of the attorney-general to en-
force every such forfeiture by bill in
equity or other proper process. And
In any suit or proceeding that may be
commenced TO enforce the provisions
Of this act, II shall be the duty of the
court TO determine the very right oI
the matter without regard TO matter
Of form. joinder Of parties, multifari
BUSINESS, or other matters not affecting
the substantial rights either Of th'
United States or OF the parties concern
ed In any such proceeding arising ou
OF the matters In this act mentioned.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25
lBsn Psrlsy Poore's "Reminiscences.

Sixty years Of busy JOURNALISTS life
at Washington are epitomizedi 10 Major
Ben. Perley Poore's forthcoming book.
One OF the admirers Of the Major re-
Gently said that "at . judiciously ripe
period Of life the Major stopped grow
ing old, and since then, like some Of
the choice Madeira Of which he writes
with 10 much feeling, he has only been
accumulating boquet and flavor"
Major Poore has been one Of the best
known and one Of the most knowing
men In Washington society for half q
century. His Is the sunny tempera-
meut deligbting In bright, social In
tercourse. Yet his connection with
daily journalism and his position In
the u. b. Senate placed him always In
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25
Tha Commissioner Appointed.

WASHINGTON. Mar. 1.-The Presi-
dent has appointed the following inter.
state commissioners: Thomas NJ.
Cooley. OF Michigan. for the term of
six year,; VIM. p. Morrison, of Hi.
nois, for the term OF Ave Year,; Au.
gustus Schoonmaker, Of New York,
for the term Of four years; Aldace r.
Walker, Of Vermont, for the term of
three yesrs; Walter i. Bragg, Of Ala
bama, for the term of two years.
The fact that Mr.. Cooley's name
heads the list does not necessarily in
dicaie that he will be chairman.
Cooley was recently appointed by
Judge Gresham receiver Of the Wa.
bash road.
Aldace F. Walker is q Vermont law.
yer, about A years old. and Republi-
can In politics who studied law with
Senator Edmunds; served o. colonel
In the American army, and has since
then practiced law at Rutland. In
Vermont be took the leading part in
framing legislation to solve the rail-
way problem, and has given much
study TO the question.
Augustus shoemaker is q lawyer Of
Kingston, New York, and was always
q political and personal friend Of Gov
ernor Tilden. He succeeded Mr.. Fair-
child Is attorney general Of New York
state.
Mr.. Bragg has been leading Dem
ocrat in Alabama for some years. In
1881 he Was made president of the
Alabama state railroad company and
served In that capacity four year,, dur.
ing which time many important ques-
tions arising between railroads and
their customers were satisfactorily
adjusted.
Mr.. MorrisoL's public services are
well known.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25
Material for War ships.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 22.-Bids were
opened st noon to-day In the Office OF
the secretary OF the navy for l,30S tons
of steel gun forgings and 4,5O0 pounds
of steel armor plate, for the c0mDle-
ton Of the vessels now under construc-
uon by the department. The bids for
|, $50 tons of steel gun forgiugs were Ms
follows: Cambria Iron Co., $S5l .513,
Midvale Steel Co., 81, 1897 80; Bethle-
hem Iron Co., $9O2, $50. For steel
armcr plate (about $500 tons there
Were but two bids, NJ follows; Bethle.
hem Iron Co., $3.50, 707; Cleveland
Rolling Mil Co., S4.02l, $50. The pro-
posal OF the Bethlehem company was
accompanied bya q memorandum say
ing that the price named was based on
the condition set forth In the adver-
tisement of August lst last. The com.
papy adds that lite bids are for both
armor plate and gun forgings, and
should therefore receive preference, all
things being equal. Secretary Whit.
ney expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the result of the bidding
Tor the production IN this country O.
armor and gun steel.
The advertisement issued by tn,
d apartment contained . provision re
quiring contractors to provide plan
with all needful appliances adeQuat.
10 the manufacture Of forgings, and u
deliver within periods ranging from
thirty-three TO ffty-four months afteI
the signing Of contracts In the case ol
gun steel. In the case Of armor plate
the contract 10 required 10 nrovids
within two and half years plant CO
pable OF forging or rolling 800 tons Of
finished plate per month, and to de-
liver all armor within two years there
after. Attached to the proposal made
by the Bethlehem company is an ofiei
10 furnish . suitable plant within one
and . quarter years, instead OF the i've
and half yeap allowed for the pur
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25
Destruction Of the Home Of confuciu..

A recent confiagration In q remote
Chinese village destroyed the ances-
tral home OF the family % Confucius,
with all its contents, texts on stone,
commentaries. wondrous carvings In
jade and alabaster, priceless jars OF por-
celain, jewels and precious metal work
one Of the most remarkable literary
and artistic museums in the world. |.
containing as Il did nearly every ex-
tant memorial Of the great teacher.
In the building. erected about 900
years b. e., generation after genera
ton, the male heirs OF the Chioese
philosophers have dwelt In unbroken
line for $500 years, bearing the title Of
dukes.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25

Mn. Kretchner, o German lady Of
Bridgeport, Conn, gave birth recently
10 o male infant which has an ele-
phants head, and In place Of q nose .
short trunk. The mouth and lips PR
trude like those Of an elephant The
child weighs about nine pounds an and
can be fed with only q spoon. The
mother visited the circus winter quar-.
tiers here during the past winter and
was terribly frightened by the ele-
plants. The parents succeeded In
keeping the matter 10 themselves I'M
Ill recently, and now but very few
have been permitted TO see the child.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25
CONTRACTORS
CHURCHES.
SOCIETIES.

A. o. H.-Division No mseu npt q ID seeona
sundays Of each month.
X. Of H.-Msets fret and third Wednesday, ai
1902. M, at Odd Fellows Hall.
AT. IA M.-Yellowstone Lodge, No. 20. 81
and third Wednesdays.
X. A. M.-fellovstone Chapter. No. 6. second
and fourth Saturdays.
X. T.-Dsmascus Gommandery, second and
fourth Thursdays.
1. ~. y. f.-custer Lodge, No. Is, every
Monday II their hsll.
l. 90. F-sentinal Encampment, No. Q, hrs,
and third Friday.
x. Of P.-Crusadvr Lodge, No. Z, Thursday
evenings at Odd Fellows Hall.
c. K. Of A-Miles City Branch. every sunday ai
X. Of L.-Firt and third Fridays.
O. A. R--U. 8. Grant Post, No. H. hrst and
third Tuesdays.
10. @. T.-stsr Of the West, No. "a, every
Thunday evening.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-25

II the earth should Geese revolving
It would eighty change its form and
become perfect globe.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11
NO. 10.
The Mother of Washington.

The act of the Senate in appropriatng
500, 900 for the completion of the monu-
ment to Mary, the mother of Washington,
is a long deferred recognition of an honor
due to the son through the memory of his
mother For many years the uncompleted
pillar at Fredericksburg, Va, has been
disgraceful example of a nations neglect,
as it stands choked with weeds and wild
vines which Irvine around its decaying base
One cause Of neglect has undoubtedly been
the remoteness of feeling with which the
American public regards one so little known
through history as Mary Washington
While her son and his wife were prominent
figures in the society of the first admins
tration and became fully known in the light
of publicity, the mother preferred to live
quietly in her small house at Philadelphia,
| absorbed in the cultivation of her garden
and household cares, conscious of the emf
hence of her son, but always modest in her
estimation of his worth. "You were al
ways good son, are the words with which
she is said to have met General Washing
| ton, returning in triumph after the success
full termination of the war. All the scanty
testimony of the time shows that this re-
mark was characteristic of her quiet, dig
niied, unpretentious nature, and adds to
the belief that she impressed these quail
ties upon her son, in the education of whom
she was compelled to take the directing part
of both father and mother. The oil por-
trait of Mary Washington now in England
illustrates singuarly charming maiden
with calm eyes, broad forehead and deli
cately shaped face. Her brave life i'll the
new colonies necessarily developed the
stern qualities of character, and later she
appears with the manner of dignifed and
beautiful American matron, whose true
motheriness and devotion to home could
not be changed by brilliant fortune.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11

Too many are well content if they can
succeed in simply manning their evils.
They reform up to certain point, They
aim at responsibility rather than at right
eOusness The average man of today will
feel well satisfied if he can shake himself
free Of vices, cultivate good manners, or
attain high social position by reason of
talent, genius OF money. He will then
consider that he has fulfilled his earthly
destiny, and that his spiritual combats are
over. But the divine law is the law of
progress, The divine command is "Go up
higher" Nowhere has the Saviour said
1T will be enough if you become respecta-
bic ; it is sufficient that you become moral,
agreeable, cultivated men, His iniunc-
ton is, "Be ye perfect" And was not his
own life the fullest exempliiication of this
teaching Tempted at every point, even
as we are tempted, he, through successive
combats and victories, put down every
form of evil, until his humanity was glori-
fed aud made divine. X. Smgh.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11
A RIiRhted Life,

The news comes from across the water
that the Empress Eugene has applied to
the syndic of Naples for permission to min
lister as a hospital nurse to the wounded sol
diers who have been brought from Mas
sOwah.
To this complexion it comes at last The
brilliant beauty who was once the toast of
every court in Europe ends her career Il
shattered wreck, striving in a painful
round of good deeds to forget her days of
gilded vanity
But this dazzling woman has missed none
of the sweets of existence She queened it
over constituency of crowned heads
Hers was literally primrose path, and she
followed it to the end. The old world threw
itself at her little feet while the new ac-
cepted her lightest word as law in all that
concerned taste, fashion and social ethics.
From the day when Eugene de Montijo
first rose a full-orbed luminary above the
tinsel world that circled round the TulleTies
and St. Cloud down to the gloomy hour
when the tremendous tidings of Sedan
were flashed over the wires this woman
seemed to monopolize all the sunshine of
the universe
| The gorgeous pageant of the imperial sham
faded away The last of the Napoleons
died disgraced exile. The rising hope of
the Bonapartes fell beneath the spear of "a
naked African savage
| Was there ever such blighted life 1t
is long step from royal purple to sackcloth
and ashes, but the dethroned sovereign no
| longer shuns humiliation and penance
/ Perhaps she is her own severest Judge Her
sufferings have blOtted out the memory of
her follies. -Attdntd Constitution.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11
"The solid Mrn of Ro.,on.,

From the Boston Advertiser
For the following information touching
well-known product of this city we are in
debted to an English journal carrying
weight for age: The phrase Solid Men of
Boston had reference to the wealth of the
merchants of that city, who were every
where regarded as men of substance, or
solid men. Boston Q4incolnshire) was a
wealthy town so far back as 1904, for when
the quinzi6me was levied Ia duty raised on
the 10Th part of land and goods at the sew
eral ports of England, the merchants of
Boston paid ESQ, and London paid eS36.
London paid the largest of any port and
Boston was the second in amount. 1t was
one of the towns appointed by the Statue
Of Staple (21th Edward HI The mer-
chants of the Hansiatic League established
their guild there until about 1910, when in
consequence of some dispute they quilted
Boston.
Solid men Of Boston Danish long potations
Solid men Of Boston make no long orations.
Morris.
Boston Mass was the birthplace of that
resistance to the British authorities which
led to American independence 1t is a
thriving city, though not the city referred
to in the above phrase, and the Bostonians
themselves entertain no mean opinion of
their prosperous city, in allusion to which
fact the American humorist, Mr.. o. W.
Holmes, nicknamed it the Hub of the Uni
/
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11

weight causes it TO hang downward. When
the stems it encloses, which are 10 bear and
sustain the nuts, are sufficiently matured
to grow without further protection, then
this outer cover drops TO the ground, leay-
ing cluster Of ragged stems upon which
you will find every few inches miniature
cocoanuts, which require about IL months
to ripen so that at all times may be found
on the same tree nuts varying in size from
a walnut TO that Of mans head
The sections from which this country re
ceives its supply of cocoanuts are the north
ern coasts of Central and South America,
Jamaica and Baracoa. The imports into
the port of New York last year were over
5000, 900 nuts, and yet the market was
not oversupplied. They are mostly used
for dessicating purposes
In lands where the production of cocoa
nuts is almost unlimited and where "A mar
ket for them is not accessible, they are
gathered almost exclusively for the 80 per
cent Of oil they contain This oil is shipped
to all parts of the world for the manufac-
ture Of soap, candles, etc. The soap made
from this oil is very healing to the skin and
is especially priced on shipboard because it
will produce n good lather when used in salt
water-a quality rarely found in any other
kind of soap. In England the oil is largely
used in the manufacture of candles. On
shipboard it is often used in the absence of
other oils for signal lights.
The question is often asked, Are cocoa
nuts wholesome A few years ago a pack
ct ship sailed from San Francisco for Aus
trala with 100 passengers ON board, and,
ON account of rough weather and slow prog
ress, was compelled to put into one Of the
small islands of the Pacific. where large
quantity Of cocoanuts were obtained. Dur
ing the remainder Of the voyage very St
we're weather was encountered, in which
the vessel became watcrlogged, and it only
reached Australia after perilous trip Of 50
days, during which time the provisions ran
short, and men. women and children were
fed upon cocoanuts and were at last reduc
ed 10 one nut per day for each adult. Not
a life was lost and not a single case of sick
ness occurred, all the passengers landing in
IA healthy and well nourished condition. In
another instance two men drifted in a whale
boat until they were cast un dcsolate
island, where they were compelled to re
main for seven years before they were tax
en- oil, and subsisted almost wholly ON go
coanuts during that time yet when rescued
they were in excellent condition and had
| gained i'm weight
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11
A meeL LooLlng Sow. Career.

One day when Johnston's army was in
Mississippi the soldiers noticed very meek
looking COW tied to a tree right in the mid
die of the camps. They thought nothing
unusual was the matter, however That
night 30, 900 men turned in" and went t.
sleep little dreaming that the old COW was
going to disturb anybody. About midnight
some practical iokers tied brushy limb "a
the cows tail and gave her start in life
She did not disappoint the expectations Of
her friends, but made a wild dash through
the darkness, trampling over the sleeping
soldiers and dragging the brush over then
PROSTATE forms, The bowls and yells thai
followed in her wake added TO her terror,
and faster and faster she went until SHE
had run over the biggest part of Johnston
army. To add 10 the confusion nobody
knew exactly what was the matter The
only thing anybody did know was that l
wide streak of profanity was running
through camp in a zigzag fashion, but only
the practical iokers could guess the cause
Next day there was big demand for stick
ing plaster. Charleston Nelcs.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11

disposition behind il, ready 10 break out at
any time in acts of overt violence.
found the sea quite warm in number
Of places, and at one point by no means
close in shore, the water was as hot AS one
would care to hold his hand in. In one lit
tie bay, between two out -juttng points OF
lava, the whole surface of the water was
steaming. Projecting from the face of the
bank overlooking the sea were many bowl
ders Of various sizes, up to fifteen and
twenty feet in diameter. These were evil
IDENTIFY of different material from the mass
in which they were embedded They must
have been picked up by the flow in its
downward course and carried along almost
precisely as icebergs transport similar OBJ
iprtg
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11

There ought to be railroad regulation
to side track every engineer that drinks.
-MdcoH Telegraph.
The old saying has been revised. II is
"Strike while the blood is hot, nov. Phil
ddeiphid Inquirer.
Love may be blind, but marriage is a
very successful eye doctor.-St, Pdd Her
did
De Lesseps is once more going TO Pana-
ma He is, doubtless, startled by the re
cent assertion Of Sir William Thomson that
the sun will he too cold to warm the earth
in 10, 600, OOO years, and feels that he must
hasten the work on his canal - Boston Al
reIfissf.
"You can't fight here, said Officer Dai
ly, as he came upon two men who were
wrangling ON Clinton street the other day
who wants TO y boldly demanded one Of
the twain. "You seem Ia" mo don't
I'm simply getting mad now so as TO LICK
this Teller when he comes out into the coun
try. o. Detroit Free Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The true use of the lenten season is not
that we may sit in sackcloth and ashes, be
wailing our sins not that we may set our
selves apart from pleasure or recreation of
all kinds; not that we may follow the OBJ
servances of the church in eating and
drinking but that we may renew our dor
mant consciences, cruelty our evil wishes
and desires, cultivate peace, charity and
good will with all around us, and receive
i'll this way an accession of spiritual
strength for the never-ceasing conflict
which we all must ware
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11
The Old church,. Lament.

The following lines were found in the keyhol
If the old Baptist church in Halifax in 1858 The
authorship is not known fora certainty, and il ha
leen attributed To several persons; but it is popu
arly supposed that Rev. Judson Tucker Wrot
hem.
| wandered forth one summer morn.
As wont, in Inusing mood,
Where stands an old deserted church
Mid natures solitude.
stood and gazed. so strange the scene
That on my vision broke;
When from the old and messy walls
voice in echo spoke:
stranger, although deserted now
And ruined appear,
I've treasured many a memory
of hours that were more dear.
Kind faces oft before me Hit
Sweet sounds the old haunts fill,
And friends that So long have loved
dream are with me still.
But in the lonely churchyard near
Beneath the mountain shade,
Sleeping their long, last, dreamess sleep,
My dearest friends arr laid.
Down by the gushing fountain there,
Sparkling so pearly bright,
Have many, through long years gone 10y,
Received the sacred rite.
And here within these sacred walls
Once sacred held and dear,
Where the assembled multitude
Have bowed with hearts sincere
Have youth and beauty often met,
Where love Joined heart with heart,
And at this altar breathed their VOWS
That death alone can part.
loft has the stricken mourner come,
With anguish none can tell,
And of the loved and lost ON earth
Here bid Il last farewell.
But now, alas! I'm left alone,
My sad fate to deplore,
And sigh that union once SO true
Has fled forever more
And thus the old mansion spoke
OF former days, it seemed;
When from the vision | awoke,
And 10! twas all a dream.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-11
MISCELLANY.


| lent my love a book one day:
she brought it back; ! lnid II by;
Twas little either had to say,
She was 50 strange and ! 50 shy.
But vet we loved Indifferent things
The sprouting buds, the birds In tune;
And Time stood still and wlpathed his wings
With rosy links from June to june
For her. what tasl, to dare or do,
What peril tenpty what hardships brar.
But with her ah she never knew
My heart and what was hidden there
And she with me so cold aud coy,
Seemed like maid bercft of sense;
But IN the crowd all life aud joy
And full Of hushful impudenCe'
She married well woman needs
A mate. her life and love to share
Aud little cares sprang up like weeds,
Aud played around her elbow chair.
And years rolled by but /, content
Trimmed my own lamp, and kept Il bright
Till ages touch my hair bcsprent
with rays and CLEANS " silver light.
And then. II CHANGED took the book
Which she peruged In days gone by;
And us read such passion shook
My soul needs must curse or cry
For here aud there her love WAS writ
Ia old, half faded pencil sign;
As if she yielded bit by bit
Her heart in dots and uudcrlinrS
Al, silver fool too lat, you look
know II let me here record
This maxim: Lend no girl book
Unless you read It afterward
FtOHt an Otd newspaper anonymous.